Life in accordance with intellect is best and pleasantest, since this, more than anything else, constitutes humanity.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

The pleasures arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more. 1153a 23

These virtues are formed in man by his doing the actions ... The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life.

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.

Without friends, no one would want to live, even if he had all other goods.

A man without regrets cannot be cured.

One can with but moderate possessions do what one ought.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.

Every true reader could, even if not one new book were published, spend decades and centuries studying on, fighting on, continuing to rejoice in the treasure of those already at hand.

When she wraps her arms around my neck, all I want to do is protect this girl for the rest of my life.

New Zealand totally rejects Japan's proposals to double the number of whales slaughtered in the Southern Ocean

No business is above Government; and Government must be empowered to deal adequately with any business that tries to rise above Government.

You know, you’re pretty when you smile,” she said, patting the side of his cheek. “Fierce, woman. I am fierce.” “If you say so.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

When you're generating your own stuff, you can never have too much money around, because you've already sacrificed so much and cut your budget so much that everything's taking a hit.

If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present, engaged, knowledge workers when they come to work?

Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.